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Indexing Relative Links: Target of Misapplied Parent Levels

This page is testing how search engine indexing robots traverse relative
links: links that refer to pages on the same site by their location
in relation to the linking page. For more information, see the Relative
Links Test page, and the Robot Indexing Test
page.

This page is only linked to by the Relative Links Test
using problematic syntax <../../../../../test/relativelink/test5.html>.
A robot which attempts to follow this link will go beyond the root directory
of the web server, which is not allowed. Most robots will simply fail to index
this page, but a few will start from the root and locate it. You can test
this by searching for the code below.

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